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making over of carpets is made a specialty. A dozen skilled employees are at work and every contract is expeditiously done in the most satis- factory manner. The capacity of the works is 2,000 yards of carpet daily. Mr. Joseph W. Webber is a native of Toledo and a young man of rare business ability and advanced business methods. He has a large trade and enjoys the confidence and esteem of the public.
F. Frankfurt.
In this commercial review of the city's leading interests and es- pecially those that hold a high place as up-to-date and advancing in modern methods, we feel it incumbent to make special reference to the Frankfurt Grocery Co. at the corner Eleventh street and In- diana avenue. Every Toledoan knows of the " White Front," the original trade mark, establish- ed by Mr. F. Frankfurt, the hust- ling owner of this busy mart of business. The business was estab- lished by Mr. Frankfurt in 1891 since which time he has builded up a trade that is the envy of his competitors and a mark to his rare business ability and genius. The premises occupied is a two-story brick of large di- F. FRANKFURT. mensions and the store is spec- ially filled for the requirements of the large and constantly increasing trade. The stock comprises everything to be found in the modern high class grocery and also especially in the line of choice butter, eggs and the products of the dairy and aviary. Mr. Frankfurt's trade is among the leading families of the city and he maintains special deliv- ery service for the benefit of his patrons. Mr. Frankfurt is a native of
Hungary, and has been in this city for twelve years. He is highly re- garded as a business man of great ability and honor and enjoys the confidence and esteem of all.
The Practical Mantel Co.
One of the newly established houses or comparatively so that has exerted a most wholesome influence is that of the Practical Mantel Co., No. 713 Adams street. The business was established nearly two years ago, the present proprietors being Messrs. F. Adams and H. F. Man- they. The premises occupied are large and handsomely fitted. The specialty of the house is tile, marble, mosaic, slate, parquet, wood car- pet and hard wood floors, mantels, tile work, grates, asbestos backs, Egyptian and Moorish fret work and grills. A fine line is carried and the company employ expert designers in laying and making any kind or style of work. The following named persons we have done work for are: C. A. Browning, H. W. Wachter, Dr. J. A. Wright, N. B. Bacon, D. C. Shaw, E. D. Libby, H. J. Specker, M. A. Scott, A. M. Woolson, Chas. Hanner, A. Bishop, J. B. Davis, Ed. Baumgardner, R. R. Lee and St. Charles Hotel. A large and constantly increasing business is done. Mr. Adams is a native of England and Mr. Manthey is a native of Ohio. Both are young men of rare business promise and highly es- teemed in trade circles.
Toledo Book Co.
There exists in Toledo, aside from the rush and crush of the ma- terial world a well developed literary taste and culture which does in- finite credit to the intellectual character of the community, and a love for books is steadily extending and increasing among the people of all classes. This creates a demand for the best products of the leading and standard authors and the finest specimens of the printer's and book maker's art. Among the book sellers of this city none is more worthy of note in this connection than the Toledo Book Co. of which Mr. J. F. Macauley is sole proprietor. This company is domiciled in a fine and capacious store room in the Valentine block, being No. 410 Adams street, where in a salesroom 18x60 feet in area, is displayed an
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unusually complete and well selected stock of books, embracing all the standard and popular works by the best authors, and covering every class of desirable literature from the light novel or novelist to the heaviest and most profound product of the human mind. Also books of reference, standard dictionary, scientific, religious and technical pub- lications of many kinds and applicable to all departments of profes- sional as they use. Here are also to be found the latest and best mag- azines and other periodicals, together with a fine assortment of writing papers, inks, mucilage, pens and holders, fountain pens of the best makers, paper weights, blank books, memorandum books, office spec- ialties, stationer's sundries, and specially ruled blank books adapted to the use of lodge, offices and kindred purposes. This house is in all respects a marvel of completeness and systematic arrangements. Sev- eral very capable assistants are employed and patrons are served with becoming care, intelligence and promptness. This house has been in operation for something less than two years and has already drawn to itself a goodly share of the most desirable trade of the city and sur- rounding country. Mr. Macauley has had a long and valuable ex- perience in the business, having been engaged in the same line in his native city of Detroit, where he stood deservedly high as a merchant and man. He has already made a most favorable impress upon this community, for enterprise and honorable business methods, and has demonstrated his ability as a thoroughly trained book and stationery merchant, who has mastered every detail of this intricate and import- ant branch of business.
The W. W. Whitney Co.
One of the best known houses in the city and the largest in its line is that of the W. W. Whitney Co., publishers of sheet music and music books, No. 406-408 Jackson avenue. This business was established in 1860, and in September, 1889, the present company was organized and incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio. The officers of the company are among the most prominent capitalists and business men in the city, and men whose ability and resources have done much to make Toledo the busy, progressive city it is to-day. The premises
occupied by the company are two floors in the Berlin block, where they pursue an extensive music and book publishing business. The busi- ness of the company extends throughout the United States and Prov- inces of Canada, also London, England. The officers of the company are: W. W. Whitney, president ; F. A. Waite, vice-president and treas- urer, and A. L. Stough secretary. The members of the company are highly esteemed in business circles.
Richard B. Draper.
There are few cities in the country of its size that have made more rapid strides in every branch of legitimate business than has Toledo, or that numbers among its business men more wide-awake and progress- ive as well as public-spirited men that represent the true spirit of modern commercial endeavor. There are many houses that we shall present in this commercial review, but none that deserve more credit or have been more instrumental in the building up of the business of the city than that of the Toledo Fish and Game Market, No. 619 Adams street. The business is both wholesale and retail and was established nine years ago by Mr. Richard B. Draper, the sole proprietor. The retail is conducted at No. 619 Adams street in a commodious and finely appointed store and the wholesale is located at No. 125 Superior street. Both are specially fitted for this branch of trade with refrigerators and cold storage of many tons capacity. The market receives fresh con- signments of goods daily, that includes all kinds of fresh and salt water fish, oysters, game and poultry. Goods from the eastern market are shipped in refrigerator cars. Game from the South, West, and from Canada and Michigan is received daily. Mr. Draper supplies the lead- ing markets, hotels and cafes as well as controlling the exclusive family trade in these seasonable eatables. His great specialty is lake and sea food and his trade is throughout Northwestern Ohio. A score of men are employed in the business and five wagons. Mr. Draper is a native of Pennsylvania. He is highly regarded in this city as one of its fore- most and most progressive men. He is interested in every project that legitimately advances Toledo.
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George M. Kring.
The first and paramount consideration is health and comfort under every consideration, and these are best attained through houses made pleasant and healthful through the best endeavors of science. This subject calls forth the necessity of sanitary heating, and we wish in this review to call special attention to the recently established house of George M. Kring, heating and ventilating engineer, No. 717} Adams street. Mr. Kring established his business in June, 1896, and has built up a large trade. He is an able engineer in this line and came to Toledo from Cumberland, Md., where he was formerly engaged in the same line. The premises occupied are a two-story brick building, 25x100 feet in area. Mr. Kring makes a specialty of high-class sani- tary plumbing and heating, and is agent for the Celebrated Faultless Furman Boilers, both for steam and hot water heating. Mr. Kring is a native of Pennsylvania and a business man of rare ability.
L. Franc & Son.
The great progress in the perfection of labor-saving machinery has been the cause of this great increase and advancement in the produc- tion of fine foot-wear, and American shoes to-day are the best made in the world, being unequaled for finish and style. The finest boots and shoes in the country are to be found on sale in full variety in this city by Messrs. L. Franc & Son, whose well and popularly patronized em- moriums are at Nos. 341 and 141 Summit street. The former store was opened five years ago, the latter in April, 1896. Both are spacious, handsomely appointed salesrooms and contain very large stocks of fashionable shoes of all kinds for all ages of both sexes. The firm's motto, wittily put, is " Your sole comfort, our sole thought," and they are prepared to meet the wants of the most exacting in the most satis- factory manner. The members of the firm are Mr. Leopold Franc, of L. Franc & Co., wholesale liquor dealers ; his son, Mr. Harry L. Franc, and Mr. Lewis Strasburger. The members of the firm are progressive merchants and public-spirited citizens, and they have done much to promote Toledo's commercial prosperity.
George B. Evans.
An establishment of more than ordinary activity and business im- portance is the wall paper and paint store of George B. Evans, located at 2210 Monroe street, near Twenty-second street. This business was founded about twenty-four years ago and has come to be one of the institutions of this part of the city. The premises used for the business are the ground floor, front and rear of the two-story brick building, 2210 Monroe street, the And GEO B. EVANS 820 WALL PAPER front salesroom containing the wall paper stock and all PAINT AND FRESCO other goods kept, with ex- ception of paints and kind- red goods, these being stored in the paint room in the rear. The stock carried is a full and very complete one in all the lines of merchandise here handled, comprising wall papers of newest and prettiest designs, artist's materials, paints, oils, varnishes, stains, bronzes, flitters, picture wire, picture hooks, room moulding, gold paints, furniture polish, floor wax, paint brushes, artist's brushes, dry colors, decorative paints, shelf paper, enamel paints and a host of sundries belonging to the line. A half a score or more of expert hands are employed and spec- ialties are made of artistic wall papering, interior decorating and finish- ing, fresco painting, house painting, hard-wood finishing, varnishing, graining, glazing, room mouldings and all kindred work. Having been actively engaged in this business for twenty-four years, Mr. Evans does not lack anything in the way of wide and thorough experience and he has won a reputation of keeping only first-class, desirable goods, of em- ploying none but the most competent and trustworthy help, mechani-
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cal and otherwise, and hence has for years enjoyed the fullest confi- dence of the people and most prosperous patronage. He is a native of Hamilton county, Ohio, having been born near the city of Cincinnati, but has for many years lived in this city, where his business ability and high personal character have made him popular with a wide circle of people.
Bateman & Schwartz.
In the wide domain of commerce there is no branch of business of greater importance or usefulness than that of the retail grocer. There are scores of houses in Toledo engaged in this line and one of the most popular and successful among them is that of Bateman & Schwartz, established April 7th, 1869, whose store is located at No. 441 Summit street and 2163 Ashland avenue. This firm was organized in July, 1893, and the co-partners, Messrs. Elwood Bateman and Charles W. Schwartz, have directed their business with such energy, prudence and enterprise that an extensive trade has been built up, and employment is furnished for 14 clerks and five delivery wagons. The fine large stores occupied are attractively appointed and contain an extensive stock of the choicest staple and fancy groceries of all kinds, and cus- tomers have their goods delivered to any part of the town free of charge. Messrs. Bateman & Schwartz are thoroughly progressive mer- chants, and they enjoy the good-will and regard of all who know them.
Munger & Taylor.
The business of the merchandise broker finds a fine field in this city, a field which has been availed of by several most responsible and highly representative firms. Prominent among these is the firm of Munger & Taylor whose suite of offices is at 426 and 427 Valentine building. Organized so recently as 1896, this firm immediately came to the front as an important factor in Toledo business life, representing as they do a number of old and reliable importers and producers of gro- ceries and farm products. Among the leading concerns represented may be mentioned J. H. Bahrenburger Bros. & Co., importers of for- eign fruits and onions from Spain and Egypt; Arguimbau & Ramu, of
New York City, importers of foreign fruits and nuts; Bloom Sons, of New Orleans, manufacturers and growers of sugar, molasses and rice; Schmidt & Zeigler, of New Orleans, importers and growers of coffees; Firmenich Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, Glucose-Gibbs Preserving Co., of Baltimore, Md., and in all some two hundred manufacturers and other producers and have joined accounts with other brokers throughout the country which are of a profitable and advantageous character. Mr. W. A. Munger has had an extended experience in this line, and will be ably seconded by his partner, Mr. E. W. Taylor, who, though new in the business, brings to the general fund of the firm, a mind well equipped by nature and training for the handling of im- portant business questions and matters. Both gentlemen have the benefit of youth, and its attendant vigor supplemented by high qualifi- cations of an intellectual character. That they will achieve a grand and permanent success seems well assured from the splendid beginning which has already been made.
C. J. Olrich & Co.
All branches of merchandising are well represented, none, perhaps, more strongly than that of hardware, stoves, etc., etc. One of the latest and most promising ventures in this line is the brand new concern of C. J. Olrich & Co., corner Cherry and Beacon. Of this firm and busi- ness Mr. C. J. Olrich individually is sole proprietor. The business was set in motion Jan. 1st, 1897, and hence is one of the very latest candi- dates for public favor and patronage. It must not for a moment be supposed that Mr. Olrich is by any means a novice in the business. On the contrary he has had the most valuable practical trainings imag- inable, having been on the road as a traveling salesman for Stolberg & Clapp, wholesale hardware dealers. Having been a wholesale sales- man he is eminently qualified for buying and can give his patrons the immense advantages of his own long and valuable wholesale experience. The premises occupied comprise a two-story building with double width, the front being 40 and the depth 110 feet in extent. This com- modious property is thoroughly well fitted up and so arranged so as to bring prominently to notice the more conspicuous and important
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portions of the large and judiciously selected stock of goods. This stock is unusually full and complete, and comprises all the staples and specialties, shelf goods, builder's hardware and house furnishings, tools, cutlery, locks, bolts, screws, carriages and coach hardware, paints, oils, varnishes, putty, glass, tin, japanned, sheet iron, and hollow-ware and an especially large stock of stoves and stove furnishings. Several metal works are retained, and all kinds of tin turning and repair work is given careful and prompt attention. This house is Toledo agent for Kellogg & McDougall's strictly pure white lead, Kellogg's aged linseed oil paints and McDougall's celebrated varnishes, all of which superior goods have attained a wide celebrity and enormous sale all over the United States. Mr. Chas. J. Olrich is a native Toledoan, a member of the Toledo Traveling Men's Association and a gentleman of great per- sonal popularity, as well as a high order of business qualifications. He is enterprising and is destined to achieve a grand business success.
The Club House.
One of the most prominent and surely one of the most complete of all groceries is the " Club House " grocery of Sisson & Widmer, Monroe and Oakwood avenues. This concern was established in March, 1896, and takes the name of " Club House," because it is the sole Toledo agency of the Great Grocery House of Franklin McVeagh & Co., Chi- cago, one of the most famous houses of the kind in the world, who gave the name and brand of " Club House " to their finest grades of canned goods, pickles, fancy groceries, etc, and it may be remarked, enpassant, that this brand upon any article absolutely guarantees it to be of the highest quality possible to be attained at the present stage of civiliza- tion and manufacturing advancement. The stock comprises the finest, purest, freshest, and very best goods in staple and fancy groceries, teas, coffees, spices, canned goods, bottled goods, table delicacies, imported and domestic fruits, choice vegetables, confections, provisions and all that is essential to completeness of selection, "The Club House," goods constituting a very large and important percentage of the stock. A marked characteristic of this store is its extreme neatness and trimness
of arrangements, everything being exceedingly bright, clean and invit- ing and the whole place wearing an air of superior management and prosperous, active, growing business, surely a handsome store, a splen- did stock, presided over by thorough and able business men, supple- mented by a corps of capable, courteous and prompt clerks and other assistants and sustained by the generous patronage of hundreds of the leading families of Toledo. A pleasing feature is the fact that this con- cern is in the hands of young merchants, full of energy, liberality and progressiveness and men who have a great business future before them. Mr. Vine D. Sisson is a native of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Fred F. Wid- mer, of Sandusky, Ohio. They are both influential members of the Retail Grocers' Association, and are gentlemen of high standing and popularity in both business and social circles.
J. R. Lawton & Company.
While the numerous railways entering Toledo give her a leading rank among railroad centers of the United States, as well as affording magnificent connections and means of transportation to all inland points, it is the splendid facilities for cheap water freighting and the connections thus offered for reaching a vast expanse of country which have made this city so favored a site for the establishment of that class of business enterprises which are connected with the handling in large quantities of those bulky and heavy products for which cheap freight costs are so absolutely essential. The lumber trade is one of the chief of these and it is quite needless to say this branch of business is most extensively represented here. A well-known firm in this line is J. R. Lawton & Co. whose office, warehouse and yards are located at Swan Creek and Division street. This business was originated in 1893, by Mr. J. R. Lawton and by him conducted until May, 1896, at which time the present firm was organized. The plant comprises yards whose dimensions are 600x800 feet and a brick warehouse 75x100 feet in ground plan, and the stock, which is a fine and well assorted one, em- braces lumber, lath, shingles, special bills, long timber and all usually comprehended in the classification of a lumber yard business. A number of men and teams are employed and a most flourishing busi-
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ness is prosecuted throughout the city and vicinity. Many of Toledo's builders obtain their supplies from this concern and the firm has built up a high reputation for the quality of their goods and the promptness and despatch which characterizes their business methods. The gentle- men who compose the firm are Mr. Joseph R. Lawton (also a prominent member of the Toledo Chamber of Commerce), Mr. W. C. Penoyar and Mr. W.V. Penoyar. Mr. Lawton was formerly from New York and the Messrs. Penoyar are natives of the State of Michigan, but all of them are prominently and thoroughly identified with this city and its busi- ness interests. Their business habits and methods are of the kind to command the confidence of the public and to result in a much increased growth of their business from year to year.
Hoffman & Harpst.
The influence of the insurance business has been exerted to secure a uniform use of the least inflammable materials in the construction of all buildings, whether for business or residence, and the consequence is few buildings of any kind are finished with other than metal roofs and cornices. Among the more prominent firms giving special attention to that class of work in Toledo, Messrs. Hoffman & Harpst are well known and very successful. As a firm they began business in 1890, and being experts in their line they soon acquired a place in the front ranks of the trade. Their plant at Nos. 924-926 Cherry street is of itself typical of the business pursued, being a galvanized iron structure 60x70 feet in dimensions, specially adapted to the uses to which it is devoted and thoroughly equipped with all the most desirable tools, appliances, devices and modern machinery required for the execution of all kinds of work belonging to this line. The scope of the business takes in the manufacture and placing of galvanized iron skylights, cornices, tin, copper, sheet iron and galvanized iron work of all kinds and metal work generally. Among recent contracts completed it may be men- tioned that they did the metal work on the Toledo Glass Works and the Drago and Rossback building, both of which are very perfect and well finished jobs. Aside from other departments they also act as sole
agents in this city for the famous Floral City Hot Air Furnaces, many of which have been placed with vast satisfaction to the purchasers. These furnaces are esteemed to be of a very superior design and to give a maximum heat with the minimum consumption of fuel, and to be in many ways superior to the major- ity of others on the market. For references see : A. M. Woolson, of the Woolson Spice Co .; S.W. Beck- with, M. D .; Rich. Kummerow ; Charles F. Moser ; L. H. Meinert, confectioner; W. J. Bitter, plumber; C. W. Parson, lumber dealer; L. F. TIGHT FUI NACE. Towers, M. D .; J. C. Wuerfel, of the Toledo Foundry & Machine Co .; George Waldvogel ; Jacob Engel- hardt ; F. C. Tanner ; J. J. Bracht, department superintendent Stolberg & Parks ; John Alter, of the Alter WATER PAN Wholesale Cigar Co .; M. C. Galvin ; W. P. Thatcher, attorney ; St. Joseph Church (French), corner COLD AIR Locust and Erie ; Zion German Re- formed Church ; John M. Skinner]; Isaac Humphrey ; J. H. Feilbach; C. J. Henzler, M. D .; Charles Benner ; Charles Abair ; John Stolberg, of Stolberg & Clapp Co .; Charles Stolberg, of Stolberg Manufacturing Co .; C. A. Thatcher, of Hurd, Brumback & Thatcher; Chas. Newman ; Fred Felt ; Arthur Cone ; Roland Johnson, architect ; Wm. Sigrist ; John Vanficht, contractor ; Wm. H. Broer, jeweler. For all depart- ments of the business they keep employed a large staff of expert metal workers and other mechanics and all orders receive skillful as well as prompt attention. The firm have patrons in all parts of Toledo and the towns surrounding and their high reputation comes from the supe- rior class of work executed. Paul Hoffman and Lewis J. Harpst con-
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stitute the firm. They are masters of their business and are known as honorable, high-minded business men and progressive citizens.
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